# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-olive
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:06:06.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-olive"
name: "David Olive"
slug: "david-olive"
description: "David Ian Olive ; 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–Olive duality."
tagline: "British physicist (1937-2012)"
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birthDate: "1937-04-16"
deathDate: "2012-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump